Helpful Informaiton

Scheduled/Streaming Topics Calendar

Our four scheduled topics rotate throughout the week giving you an opportunity to complete each topic as quickly and conveniently as possible, based on your individual needs. Classes are not taught on holidays or during school vacation breaks. Students can easily reserve a spot in each of these topics up to 3 weeks in advance. Once you register for our online course, you will be able to reserve a seat in each of the 4 topics based on your preferred days and times. If you register for a seat in one of the scheduled topics and cannot attend the class, for whatever reason, no worries! You can reschedule that topic at a later day and time that works better for you. Students have up to 3 months to complete all course requirements. Please keep in mind that the four self-paced topics can be taken at any time you wish.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

9 AM

Agency

MA License Law

No Classes

Brokerage

Principles & Practices

Agency

MA License Law

5 PM

Brokerage

Principles & Practices

No Classes

Agency

MA License Law

Brokerage

Principles & Practices

Course Videos & Tracking Student Progress

Each of the FOUR ONLINE topics are broken into 5 sections. Each section is approximately 45 minutes long. You will need to complete each section in order to move onto the next section, by clicking on the “Mark Section Complete” button in the lower left corner of each section page. Please keep in mind that while each video can be paused or rewound for your convenience, each section is time restricted. You will not be able to advance to the next section or topic until your current section is marked complete.

At the completion of each topic, you will also be required to complete a brief quiz which covers important information from that topic.

In addition to completing the online portion of your broker course, you are required to attend the other 4 topics in-person out our school. You may take the live and online portions in whichever order you prefer, or simultaneously.

After successfully completing both the live and online portions of the course, you will received your certificate of completion in the mail, at which point you will be able to take the Massachusetts Real Estate Broker Exam.

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Course Evaluation

We encourage all students to email info@area-school.com (please put “Evaluation” in subject line) with an evaluation of our online courses. We welcome all comments and/or suggestions!

Student Identity Quiz

The last element you will complete is used to confirm your identity. By submitting a “yes” answer you will be stating that you the student/licensee certifies under the pains and penalties of perjury that you have solely completed both portions the course. In the event that we are notified that someone other than the student/licensee has completed the course, no credit or refund will be given to the student/licensee for the course completed.

Course Videos & Tracking Student Progress

Each of the FOUR ONLINE topics are broken into 5 sections. Each section is approximately 45 minutes long. You will need to complete each section in order to move onto the next section, by clicking on the “Mark Section Complete” button in the lower left corner of each section page. Please keep in mind that while each video can be paused or rewound for your convenience, each section is time restricted. You will not be able to advance to the next section or topic until your current section is marked complete.

At the completion of each topic, you will also be required to complete a brief quiz which covers important information from that topic.

In addition to completing the online portion of your salesperson course, you are required to attend the other 4 topics in-person out our school. You may take the live and online portions in whichever order you prefer, or simultaneously.

After successfully completing both the live and online portions of the course, you will received your certificate of completion in the mail, at which point you will be able to take the Massachusetts Real Estate Salesperson Exam.

Administrative, Technical & Instructor Support

We can usually solve most administrative issues and some technical issues. The best method of contact is e-mail. Please email info@area-school.com. You may also reach us by telephone at 781-893-2832. Support is available by telephone and email: Monday – Friday 9AM – 3PM. We are available by email-only after hours and on weekends.

If you have any questions regarding the course material you may email your instructor. You may email content questions to your instructor at info@area-school.com with the subject line “Instructor Question” and the email will be forwarded to your instructor. Instructors answer email during the business week M-F. They will respond to content question within 24 hours of their receipt. If the email is received over the weekend the instructor will respond to the question on the following business day (excluding holidays).

Refund Policy

If you register for our course and take one hour or less of the course and find that you are not satisfied or find that online courses are not for you contact us within 7 days from the time of registration and we will refund your course minus a 5% (of total paid) administration charge.

Students have 3 months from the date of registration to complete the program. Within those 3 months, you may receive a pro-rated refund calculated by the number of elements completed. If 1 hour or less of the course had been taken or completed within the 3 months we will refund the amount paid minus a 15% (of total paid) cancellation fee. If more than 3 months has gone by please call or email the school and will be happy to assist you.

Technical Requirements

To take this course, you will need Internet or Wi-Fi access, and an active email address. Our proprietary online educational system is designed to accommodate nearly all desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. We do suggest that you take your course on a computer or tablet, but smartphones are also able to view and track your progress. Internet Explorer (version 6 & greater), Firefox (version 2.0 & greater), Safari and Chrome are supported and regularly tested for optimal performance.

We will continue to work on expanding product support for additional browsers in the future. In some cases, slow Internet speeds or older computers may effect your video clarity. If you experience any issues, please contact us so we can offer assistance in offering solutions to your technical issue.

Video Buffering

If you are experiencing video buffering, lagging or delays, your Internet connection may not be strong enough to view our videos in full 1080p HD. We suggest lowering the video quality to 540p. If you still experience issues, please reduce video quality all the way down to 360p. You can set the video quality by clicking on the Settings icon in the lower right hand corner of the video player.